 So next, Lox and Atec Field Days, we've got Diane Stewart-Dine, would you like to introduce yourself please, and what your product is today? Sure, thanks Matt. Our company is called Aka Primary Solutions. We're not a start-up, we're actually an agent for a New Zealand technology called Harvest Electronics. So they've been around for about 20 years. They have a bunch of cellular sensors that connect through a base station and upload data live. They can collect data from everything from a rain gauge right through to fire service data. We've got some work here with the fire service departments in Victoria. They run signal monitoring on tracks, railway tracks in Tasmania. But I'm here today to talk a lot about the orchard and vineyard monitoring that we do. And what benefits are there from what you're doing for our orchard and vineyards around the Riverland? Sure, there's a lot of benefits with efficient resource use. So things like irrigation water, we can monitor soil moisture, which we've seen a lot of today. We also have pump monitoring. So it can monitor pressure, water flows, and give you alerts on all of the parameters that are monitored. So if you've got one of those leaks, you'd get a phone alert that says, pressure's not where it should be, or flow rate's not where it should be. So you have that ability to improve your decision-making, improve that use of time we've heard a lot about today. But also be very efficient with your resources. Something that's worked very well in New Zealand. A lot of the regional councils have water metres on systems, as well as individual off-takes from water systems. And that data is uploaded automatically to the regional councils for your water bills. It's also shown on screen so you can see it live when you turn your pump on. What's happening, and it all tallies, it's all electronic. Saves one job you don't have to do now. So what would be the standout feature of your product compared to some others? Well we've got a pretty good range. So we can have up to two kilometres between loggers back to the base station. So when you're on big properties like we typically have in Australia, you're not looking at necessarily a lot of the expensive base stations to jump the signal back. So that's pretty handy. It gives you really good economies. And also from what I've seen, we can fit the most sensors on those systems. So a much greater range of data points. The base stations are fully customisable and there's also a free app that's fully customised to the user. Lovely. Diane, thank you. You're welcome. Next to the locks and agtech build days, Mike Krause. Mike, would you like to introduce your company and product that you've got here today? Yeah, my name's Mike Krause. I'm CEO and founding start-up. Planned to Profit Agri is the name of our company. So if you're a grower and you've got questions about wanting to be on top of your financials, or you've got major questions like, do I want to buy the next door neighbour out? And we happen to have a hike in water pricing. What's that going to look like? And also doing sensitivity and risk management activities. Those are the sort of challenges that we've had. So we've got a cloud-based program that helps you model the financial outcomes of those challenges you've got to make a decision on. About six years ago, I was approached by GRDC. I was, no, it's not the wine industry. To write a manual on farm business management, it's actually gone to its fourth print in five years. And the principles in it are identical for horticulture. So we've grabbed that and all the different budgets that are in that. And we've basically made those budgets simpler to do rather than using Excel. So how does your product differ from other finance applications that are out there? You mentioned Excel, but how does it work better than those other products? We've put a lot of effort into usability. So we appreciate, I guess the theory is, if we can get growers and farmers using our platform, which are 60% of our license holders, then anyone should be able to use them. So usability and also some of the outputs that come from it are quite simple with dials. You can see what your efficiency of your business is. You can see the equity levels. You can see some other bank ratios and those performances. And probably what makes us a standout from anyone else in the world is we do scenario analysis. So what's the next five years going to look for us? And if we change any of that plan, what impact it's going to have on our cash or our profitability or our balance sheet? So those three things are really important to look into. So you're looking at business continuing or you're looking at succession planning or what sort of areas is this focusing on specifically? All of that. And we do, I'm sorry, some of my banners look like farming orientated. We cover all agricultural industries at the moment except for dairy and pigs. So we'll do horticulture, we do dryland farming, we do pastoral. We're all over Australia in the tropics down here. So we're covering all those. And I guess what to stand out, we do a lot of training and support with COVID and allows us to do it more with Zoom. And I have been approached by an Ag college in New South Wales to do some accredited training in the farm business management space using our platform. Mike, thank you very much. Thank you. Next at Loxan Ag Tech Field Days, Arne, would you like to introduce yourself and what you've got here today? Yeah, good day. I'm Arne Deniking. I'm the owner of Mobishare Australia. We're originally a farm-based business that's gotten a little bit out of hand. We started off looking for solutions that people wanted that you couldn't find. So we started off with a cordless shearing handpiece like this. Did that. It was something I wanted for my farm. I couldn't buy anywhere, so we went looking and that's how the business got started. Since then, we've done a lot of field days. We talk to a lot of people and people come to me looking for solutions for things and say, hey, can't you find me this? Can't you find me that? And I really kind of like the challenge. So we had over and over people asking us for a cordless secretary, initially to trim sheep's hooves. But also now we're obviously in the horticulture game and it turns out we were the first to bring one in that was fully cordless. So no cord to get tangled in. You can just wear it on your hip. Very light and easy. That was the challenge to meet and it's just gone crazy. But at the same time, we come from a fundamental farming point of view which is I don't like having to buy a product and then two years later it's obsolete and I have to throw it in the bin and buy another one. So we come from a standpoint of dependability, repairability. So we keep all the parts. We allow you to fix them yourselves. You don't have to go to an authorised repair and get charged squillions to replace something. That's something that we're really passionate about. So we really want people to have a product that they still own and they don't have to hand in every year to have the maintenance done just to keep the warranty. So on top of that, we give you a two-year warranty, an honest warranty so that when things do go wrong, you know we're there for you. If you need parts in the middle of pruning, we're at Mount Barker now, they can be overnight basically. And these are all things that I value as a farmer myself when my machines break down and that's what we try and I follow people. So come and have a look. You mentioned you got around to a lot of field-based and developed that way but were there specific things that you wanted in your product that you knew from the outset like the repairability and those sorts of things? Yeah, definitely. So everything we take to market, we test first. So these products here, we tested for nine months in the hardest conditions we could find before we were willing to even introduce them to anyone. So we found people with vineyards, I've got family in vineyards, horticulture doing trees and so forth and basically gave them to them and said, hey, kill this. And all of them didn't want to give them back afterwards so we knew we're onto a good product and from there we then went to the next step. And because it's our brand, we're a smallish company, we want to make sure that when you see our brand you get something that works and not something that goes in the bin. And thanks so much. No worries. Next to the locks and egg tech field days. Scott, would you like to introduce yourself and what you've got here today? Yes, I'm Scott. I provide customer support for Saras in Australia and so we do imaging and also other data to help people see where their crop's going like in season so we mostly for horticulture and also for other irrigated crops we will provide imagery and also integration with other sensors so people can sort of, I guess, probably useful to think of it as a mini-order so you can look at where your crop's at and find areas that you can fix and then make some changes and then a month later you do another image and see how it's fixed up and whether what you've done has worked so basically we provide some thermal data we call it water stress we provide some NDVI which are growth data which we call NDVI and chlorophyll and people look at those together and they get a really good picture for where their crop's at and compare it with last year and compare how it's going in the season. Lots of discussion on this today in the other tent but what's the entry level here? How does someone get started with this to help develop what they're doing on farm? So I guess first year we've imaged we very often find some issues so it matters just looking at the image and then someone like myself will come out and either over the phone or on your property and go through the image with you and help you to see things changes you could possibly make and we talk about different management options or whatever but then after a while you start to see the patterns in the imagery and you can make changes based on that probably in a nutshell it's like what were you expecting to see there and areas you're going to have poor and good areas and worse areas in the paddock but in your property but using imagery you can see if they're tracking where you expected and make changes and find problems before they actually become a loss of crop for that year. People you've worked for previously how has it helped them? Have you got some real world examples you can give us? So typical things we find because valves or irrigation infrastructure hasn't turned on properly so you'll very often see pressure problems before you can actually see it in their image before you can see it in person actually we pick up that there's the transpiration not quite working as well as it could so that's probably really typical and then things like wind stress and buried dripper will identify that and then if nutrition has not been quite right then you'll see slight differences in our growth picture which people use to help them refine those things so the good thing about a product is it's a relative measure that we have an app where we load things in so if there's lots of differences in the paddock you'll see those but then once you start to get those out then you'll pick up finer finer distinctions between differences so the better you get the more it'll show you so that's something that people find really useful. Excellent Scott thanks so much. No worries. Next in Lockston Agtech Field Days Brad introduce yourself and Ryan as well and let us know what you're doing here. Hi I'm Brad Knot Project Manager and this is my team member Ryan Tan. Ryan is part of the ground based vision system for the Vidiviser project. You may remember we spoke about Vidiviser as a dashboard and a ground based vision system this is the ground based vision system here and Ryan's going to very quickly talk about the functionality of that but on a higher level this is being developed open source and we're here today because we want third party technology organisations to start working with this prototypes. The project's ending in June 22 at the end we'll have a prototype of this ground based vision system working and we want to engage in an open source way for companies to come harvest all part and the data is included so you can either look at the data sets the algorithms and the hardware and develop this as a whole product or to value add to your own products and services. Excellent. Ryan do you want to take us through it? Okay I'll show you guys the two different products we have over here one is we call it the VTBOX 2.0 so they are pretty much a handheld device that you can either carry it throughout the farm or you can attach it onto the mule or quad bike and while you're doing pruning or doing something in the farm you can still take photos of the incidental capture of the farm and it has high accuracy RTK GPS data up to 3cm so this will give us a geospatial plus the information of the plant which is really useful when we combine all the information together. Okay so this again is a prototype but by this time next year it will be something really good. So the other one hanging at the back is sort of the prototype of the we call it a TriCam so it has three cameras top, middle and the bottom which is facing up we can attach infrared camera thermal imaging laser LiDAR in it as well so that will essentially give us more information as in we can even detect if there's any leakage just happening in the irrigation site plant area index how healthy is the plant so again this are all modularized units so it will be really good to get some feedback from growers as well as developers over here so at least we can move forward and make it a better product at the end. Excellent Ron I think you've summed it up beautifully thanks so much next is Loxan Agtech Field Days Andy would you like to introduce yourself and what we're doing here? Thanks Matt so Andy Chambers from Airborne Logic we obviously had a bit of a chat this morning but the detail around what we do is detailed image collection and very detailed mapping on farm so we're using a combination of drones a couple of little guys on the table here and the big one behind me on the banner and those are utilized to do detailed couple of centimeter type positioning across so that we know exactly where those end posts are the corner posts the tree or the vine itself here on the screen we've got a copy of the vineyard that we had to look around this morning with some of the variability around nitrogen in that particular vineyard block and that'll be live on the Agtech demo site so really a lot of this was driven by the request to have accurate positioning around plants so that we could do counting not only of live plants but dead ones as well so some of the financial information that this has been used for is to put together a financial budget for clearing vineyards that are really riddled with Utipa for instance so a big budget to spend across three different vineyards can't choose which one okay let's have a look and do a count and work out which one's got the least number of life trees or vines or whatever it might be so those types of financial decisions are being made behind with this type of detail what are some other applications and extrapolations you can do from getting this data yep so here are a little focused around nutrition but we also have similar layers that are showing that water stress as well so that we can then apply those types of data sets into something like a variable rate application for mulch spreading for instance if we're looking at how we're going to treat different parts of soils across vineyards with different mulch rates to retain soil moisture Excellent Andy thank you Thank you Next at Loxford Ag Tech Field Days Matthew, Deep Planet that's what we're here having a look at now Take us through what it is Deep Planet is an agri tech company out of the UK with their research background out of Oxford University where three founders met each other as doing their MBA and did a water challenge independently to each other and realised if they put all their smarts together they've actually got some really useful technology so what they're doing is monitoring and helping growers and winemakers to manage vineyards at scale so it's largely bringing in satellite imagery so other people have spoken about different ways of getting imagery we're looking at satellite imagery and providing it on a regular weekly or daily basis so that they can make decisions quite quickly and not have to rely on imagery on set timeframes Importantly they're therefore able to look at all the things we've already spoken about in terms of vigor variability stress, water but they've also got some really smart algorithms in terms of doing hands-off yield prediction as well as as you can see on screen here by my heat maps they've actually identified how they can actually measure sugar from space and organise where you might want to take your sampling from to actually get a truly accurate representation of the vineyard help growers have that database discussion with grower liaisons about is their block ready to be picked can they actually split-click the box because a third of it actually is within contract and two thirds might not be so you can say let's take that third off and we'll come back in a week and pick the rest of it so it's reducing the growers risk but the winery is still getting their wines still getting their grapes at the quality they want for the wines that they want to produce Something we've talked about is interoperability and working between other systems as well does this interface with other systems or can it is there a way it can do that? Yeah absolutely and when DeepPlanet originally set up their business their whole philosophy was that they were going to be just a business that delivered the algorithms that could do the analysis of the data as you can see you can get imagery from lots of different sources where their smarts is actually in interpreting that data and being able to put it out so their initial plan was that they would API in and out of different systems so if you've got soil moisture sensors they can actually take that information in they can predict that your soil moisture for up to a month most growers want a week to two weeks they can also do soil moisture interpretation so your whole sub terrain can be mapped across the whole block rather than just getting a measurement at one particular point but unfortunately when they started to push out their results there was no dominant platform as we've been talking about today so they can either deliver it through a front end platform they can API it into say a major larger winery or grower groups existing operational platform or as some growers who maybe want to use technology but they're not very technologically focused and they don't want to jump on a computer every day the way they build their software is they actually build it as if it's like a PDF report and then once growers and through the co-creation once growers are happy with that then they build it onto the platform so they can literally just email your PDF report once a week to make it really easy so I'm suggesting that would be the entry level if you were going to use a system like this yeah I mean from an entry level so they have as most software as a service you know monthly subscription companies do they have a free service where you can get your basic imagery again you know we're not out there trying to you know create a you know make money off of supplying imagery because that that's quite easy to get where you pay the the fee for the service is actually in the interpretation of the data and moving into prediction analytics so if you take for example the BOMA heat maps and so forth that actually was a spin out from us actually predicting the optimal harvest state based on a target BOMA level so panorakard winemakers said to us last season we want to know how much is out there quantum of the yield that's what we originally started discussing and then they said the second question was we need to know when it's ready to be picked because if we've got a 13 and a half BOMA that's our target BOMA for that Charles block then if it comes in a BOMA under it costs us a whole heap of money to put concentrate in or whatever else and we have to stop we might have already booked trucks so we have to pay for those trucks going back empty and they came back and we did a thousand hectares over multiple regions this region in in the riverland Clare Valley, Langhorn Creek and Barossa multiple regions we got to an 89% accuracy on their on the yield prediction at a block level and then within 0.22 of a BOMA to actually measure their sugar so 0.3 was their their maximum range we're in 0.22 this is one of their blocks where they've ground truth that forest as well they're very helpful in that and you know they they estimated that it was up to $55 a ton just largely in logistics costs that they were getting as an ROI in terms of not having future transport reducing their sampling by not having to have as many samples samples going up the hand the the yield predictions completely hands off the maturity prediction needs some initial samples at the early side of the season just to calibrate it and they're saving quite a lot of money and it also brought the winemakers into a database decision on where that variability is can we split pick the box because I've got X amount as I said before that's in contract and not have to risk losing my whole block interesting and the connectivity involved in that as well also just quietly say they have received a grant from the South Australian government through the department for trade and investment called the landing pad program and they will actually be opening up an office here in South Australia because they recognize the the smarts and skills of South Australia as a community from the eco system that people are all here are doing the Australian Institute of machine learning and the universities and so forth and with their Oxford University background they are coming so they will be based here as well Next to the locks and egg tech field days guy I'm going to get you to introduce but I see the tag along the essential tool for everything rural it's a big claim but I'll let you explain it to the company so onsite is a digital checking solution that helps improve operations communications compliance and biosecurity for farms and people visiting farms so we work across all rural sectors we have over 36,000 users across 3,500 rural businesses we're out in New Zealand so I just moved here four months ago to grow our presence in Australia already the uptake's been really good our biggest sectors are orchards and vineyards but we come from the dairy sector so really the need for onsite came from our CEO and co-founder Ryan Higgs who worked for Sinlay which is one of New Zealand's largest dairy farming operations and they struggled to know who was where in real time, what jobs they were doing, how to communicate health and safety information, particularly temporary stuff that would pop up overnight and that's a requirement under legislation so they couldn't find a visitor management on the market at the time that solved this problem so that's where it was created so really started with check-in and health and safety management but it's grown from co-development with the industries to be the essential tool for everything rural so including task management, biosecurity and that's our ultimate vision is to create a global rural network to provide next generation biosecurity. So how is the system implemented, how does it work in that respect? It's an app on your phone at the core of it so we're at first and super simple we know it needs to be ridiculously simple to actually get used in the field, you can have the best back end in the world if it's not used in the front end then you're not really collecting data and it's not useful so yeah anyone can download the app on their phone free to download, I've mapped out the Loxton site so you can check and play around, look at the risks and stuff and you can also use QR codes kiosks, web check-in you name it, we've thought of all the different ways how we can allow people to still use the system no matter what their level of tech capability or you know whether they have a phone that can run it etc. So there's a level of scalability there as well? 100% yeah I mean we started from individual dairy farms now our biggest customer manages over 200 orchards so it scales with your business so there's a free version that can help with things like sustainable accreditation so compliance is getting heavier and heavier these days so like the sustainable wine growing accreditation it then requires you to do things like map your property, traceability, biosecurity OH&S management and so all of these things you can do through on-site, a lot of them through the free version and then the subscription is 100 bucks a site a month and that will allow you to do your OH&S and job tracking and things like that Excellent, thank you so much Next at Lockston AgTech Field Days we've got John, where are you from and what's your business? My name's John Pargetta I was a grower of 500 acres down at Langong Creek so similar sort of pain points coming off the river I'm now with Swan Systems Swan Systems is a software company, we're hardware independent but I guess especially as we heard in the tent next door is dragging together all of that siloed information and data sets so we bring in weather data, irrigation controller data moisture probes, some leaf sensors all the different siloed things that the grower has issues bringing together and looking at different platforms so we bring it into the one platform And how do you use it from there? It then has as Peter mentioned on a slide there it can be very easily you can look at a dashboard and you can see whether the blocks you've got are in the green zone which is obviously the good zone if it was blue it's over watered, if it was yellow it's under watered but when you drill down further you're able to program seven days out our algorithms look at the forward weather conditions and we're able to then put a suggested irrigation out for seven days we have one irrigation controller that we currently have it fully integrated so we can push that seven day program into the irrigation controller and we're working on the other two major ones as in Taugil Dream that's here and also the MoTeC ICC Pro so the two major ag controllers but there will be Galcon and Mate and those come along as well So there's a level of automation going on here as well? Correct, yeah and it's it gives the grower that one stop shop I guess, all that solid information is able to look in the one place we also integrate imagery from a number of different sources whether it be drone, satellite we can bring that in as well Excellent, John thanks so much and next it locks in AgTech Field Days Matt Cooper you've got the product in your hand take us through it I do indeed, thanks Matt So I work for D3 Ag and we are the Australian distributor of Aribel and their flagship product which is the Mark II as Mark mentioned in the field earlier this afternoon it's a weather station but we also have some crop sensing capabilities in there as well primarily to look around the overall water balance of a crop what's coming in, what's going in a rainfall reference ET our crop ET and a couple of other bells and whistles as well such as looking at overall peak greenness NDVI and things like that So how does it actually do that? Well we use spectroscopy so we measure about seven different wavelengths which correspond to plant growth we also use infrared canopy temperature to get those measurements as well and we use very simple ratios to get those NDVI calculations which we deliver on a daily basis So how does the data go from there to something that we can use? So we transmit to two places a web app and a mobile app via cloud services and look the data that we see coming from this thing in the field provides us with all the information about obviously everything that the weather drives our crop production we can tie things to growth stages and phenological stages and there's a little bit of extra capability in scheduling as well So what have been some implementations that people have used this for to better their farm? Well we see a lot of success in short season crops such as vegetables because it's very portable, it's easy to move around and particularly in viticulture as well so it was very popular in the commercial research space in agriculture as well and it's really just a tool, a valuable tool that they can have on the toolkit which provides all the relevant field data that they need to run their operations basically We also have the capability to plug into other systems as well if growers might be have more of an on the boots on the ground boots approach it's useful to have a series of these things deployed across their operation where we can just check in see what the local conditions are what the forecasted conditions are or we can scale up from that we want to dive deeper, we can send our data to people like Swan Systems you know, DeepPlanet PairTree Intelligence and a whole range of others so we've got great interoperability with other platforms that are out there and that's where we see a lot of success as well Excellent Matt, thank you Thanks Matt Next at Lockston AgTech Field Days we have Hannah from Save Ag Systems Do you want to take us through what you're here for today? Hi, I'm Hannah we are Save Ag Systems an operational safety software for managing health and safety on farm and compliance founded on the York Peninsula after an incident on farm realised when they thought they were all across their safety started asking questions regulators came in couldn't answer them, they wanted records procedures, maintenance records and inductions so Save Ag Systems was born that was about five years ago since then we've developed to now cover all of your sort of OH&S as well as risk assessments hazard maps task management incident reporting, chemical register so yeah the platform's really grown a lot since then So how does it actually work? How does it integrate within the business? So it's all cloud based software with desktop and app all the workers have a login and they can then sort of mark themselves at work complete all their paperwork as they need to or not paperwork and yeah they can get everything on their phone. So does it work as a training system or is it after the training happens? So you can train within it we've got checklists which lots of people build out with a video at the top in a Q&A where it's more sort of a register so it happens as a storage for those training records and being able to show compliance on many different levels Exactly that yes and we're bringing in sort of more of the compliance as it's growing because everyone wants to integrate that as well so there will be an audit module as well in the new year so that your auditor can send you that and you can send them everything from the system you need to and then you're good to go Thank you Next at the Lockston AgTech Field Days we have Dominic would you like to take us through what you're displaying here at the Field Day? Sure, thank you very much so I'm Dominic from Greenbrain we do a range of soil moisture monitoring equipment and weather stations that sort of thing we try and give you the option to deploy, use whatever sensor type or sensor configurations are ideal for your particular property whether it's gypsum blocks and soil moisture tension as Mark was talking about earlier which is what we've got demonstrated out here or any of the commonly sold capacitance probes we're integrating them in sending them through to Greenbrain which is a really simple user interface to view the data if anyone's after more complicated more complex fancy predictions and services and things like that we've got an open API that is then able to feed the data to swan systems to manner irrigation to series imagery you name it as we're even looking after all of the race track soil moisture monitoring in Victoria so we've got that API to send the data out to any other use case Can you just explain to us how the setup is actually out in the field and how that actually works? Yeah so there's sensors either weather station sensors in the air or soil moisture sensors down in the ground they tend to be cabled up to something like this which would be a cellular logger so it's a little solar panel inside that little logger that powers the unit, measures the sensor takes the reading and then connects via the CADM1 network to the cloud where data is brought and uploaded in real time so the growers can see what's going on And the APIs that you're talking about was that a decision from the outset to make sure it could actually work in with other systems and push them forward? The outset was 1984 so I don't think anyone could spell API back then it was certainly a decision that I thought was quite important we weren't ever going to build every connection to every service in the in the industry what everyone wants and in the formats that they wanted so the easy way to make all of that flexibility available was to make the data available for everyone who's doing a very specific and a really good job at some of those things so it was an early decision but it wasn't at the outset Dominic, thank you Thanks And at Lockston Agtech Field Days and a lot of equipment here do you want to take us through some of it and how it all works? Sure, thanks for having me I'm representing Sentec South Australian based company established in Adelaide actually in Riveland in Lockston we have tens of thousands of these probes around this area in Riveland especially we're selling to more than 80 countries in the world at the moment it's not just the soil moisture it's moisture salinity as well as the temperature in different levels calculating anywhere between 10 centimeters to 40 meters so depending on what type of crops or what type of industry we're working with it goes from mining to environmental to ag and hort and so on we also do have weather station, automatic weather station that probes can connect to that ones as well back to the conversation earlier that we had in the in the sessions in terms of API and ownership of the data ownership of data is definitely by the owner of the probe so that's private and personal and they can decide so which integrator or irrigation controller they want to go to if they are working with one the API also open and we are working with a number of different irrigation controllers let's say Swan, let's say Mate Alcon as well as some other ones so there's the capacity and potential to work with in terms of our product they come in a number of different shapes and forms depending on the top of the crops that the producers are planning to utilize the probes in them we also have our own telemetry like a Sentech telemetry that the unit that sends all of the information to the clouds and then all of the information can be accessed by the e-reMax which is the software that is available to the owners of the probe or the consultants that are working with us I was just going to say it looks like the system is quite scalable to whatever application we want to put it into absolutely, yes so in terms of scalability so the reason that we come up with the Bluetooth probes which is a drill and drop five minutes installation easy and then within a minute you can take it out as soon as you put it in the soil without undisturbed the data is valid pretty much it can be used but normally we give it a week or two to be able to interpret that data that is coming out from the probe it doesn't need a telemetry unit by the way so it's a telemetry on its own it sends the information to the mobile phone that you use and then you can use the mobile phone as the telemetry unit it sends it up to the cloud whenever you want and normally holds about 2100 readings so it depends how often you want it so it can be varied so it can hold a lot of information in there but it depends when you go there to grab the information from the probes but anyway too much details for now so in terms of this session the API is open for the integrators and we are open to work with any irrigation controllers we also do NDVI as well as the weekly forecast one week in advance forecast in terms of prediction in terms of irrigation what needs to be done the icing I suppose on top of the whole thing is the quality of the data that's coming out of the probes and it is South Australian and Adelaide based company and we are proud of what we produce I think you've explained it very well thank you for having us Hello everyone very nice to be here today even though not physically my name is Yoav and I'm from Aerobotics company at Aerobotics we use drone technology and models to provide information about the performance of your crop the information to provide is to the tree level or to the vine level all those tools are available for any tree crop as well as vineyards and basically the idea is to fly or a orchard to get those maps those reports to take action voice down those reports and then to reflight to measure the changes over time the entire process is very easy we work with local drone pilots they come to the property they fly the orchards we get the data on the cloud we analyze the data we identified variation in risks in your orchards and I come to your farm we sit together we go through this very detailed report which includes what we identified quantified how many trees in each block are underperforming how many trees are suffering from water stress etc. and we provide recommendations on how to fix how to rectify those issues once this have been done we reflight those blocks to measure the changes over time to make sure that we are on the right track and the entire idea is obviously to optimize yield and to reduce variation on the block level we're not here to create a beautiful maps for you to put in your office but rather to really help you to drive and take actions based on the insights that we identified again don't have heaps of time today so I'll only show you a few examples of maps that we provide the first one is a high resolution the RGB visual of your orchard which we then use to provide three sensors for each in every block of your orchard so you know how many trees you have how many are missing and that could be exported into a really nice report per variety as well the next one is using a multi-spectral sensor we provide three health maps so that you know what areas in each block are underperforming also there is a tool that allows you to quantify how many trees are affected by this trend issue how many trees are suffering from phytophthora and so forth and the last one the last thing that I will touch on today which I want to focus a little bit more is the water stress analysis basically when the drone flies we measure the temperature of each and every canopy in your orchard we then apply a few models to calibrate that based on the embryo temperature and based on the actual size of each and every canopy to provide you this colorful map as you see here on the right hand side whereby a blue dot represent tree that transpires a well photosynthesis transpires well orange yellow tree are trees that are a bit stressed in terms of irrigation I will now jump into the platform and for the last minute or 90 seconds that I have I will show you a few examples from one example from the platform specifically on the irrigation side of things so this is a citrus orchard northern hemisphere this is a naval block we've mapped this orchard quite late in the season in late April this is the visual the RGB it looks fairly uniform it looks a bit like the here but nothing too drastic and the grower wasn't aware of any issue then we applied our models and the transpiration product provided as the following image and you can definitely see that the midsection is transpires well so three trees are in a good water status compared to the with western valve and the eastern valve which was the most severe water stress as can be seen here and you can see the distribution as well so what we did here long story short was to the grower to flush clean the drippers he did so three times and he also adjusted the pressure in this valve in the eastern section and then we mapped this block twice and I'm jumping to the last mapping from late April sorry from late August sorry it's loading but you can basically see that the variation shrinks it's quite hard to see when we look at one map but if you look at it side by side you can see that the variation shrinks you can see here on the distribution and also you see that more trees are blue and less orange this block has been picked already and there was 10 tons to the hectare difference between this valve and to this valve so I think that comes to show the value of this product and how important it is to measure this irrigation uniformity distribution early in the season as early as possible to remediate those kinds of risks and anomaly we are now very busy doing those mapping as an irrigation product in your area as well citrus almond and vineyards so if you find this of interest feel free to reach out to me and we can discuss further very much Hi everyone my name is Cedric Geffen Fielding is an agtech start-up company founded in 2013 in Israel and currently operates in the US Australia and Israel our technology different to many other agtech services and products which focus primarily on the agronomics i.e soil, water, plants pests, nutrients climate et cetera et cetera Fielding's technology and service focuses on the operational side of the business with ever increasing farm size the complexity of multiple sites and assets increasing costs of input and labour it is becoming increasingly difficult for today's grower to maintain visibility and control fielding steps in we lift the veil and provide continuous visibility of the full range of equipment and the tasks on hand our sensors and tags are installed on all pieces of equipment relevant to the task we deliver live and offline insights into the location of that piece of equipment how it is faring as far as efficiency of operation is concerned based on preset parameters of your choice of multiple operators across multiple sites we provide the status of the completion of the tasks alerts in the event of exceeding or falling between below preset operational requirements and deliver reports on a daily weekly seasonal and activity basis we believe that we increase profit we know that we increase profit per acre by boosting efficiency and accountability and we enable the grower to take remedial action and to drive efficiency and profitability our insights are focused on continuous improvement and enable the grower to motivate and incentivize workers based on actual results and tangible measurable outcomes by setting goals and enunciating what success actually means it is very easy to motivate staff and team members and then hold them accountable to the metrics because you've got the data we assist growers in producing better yields by enabling them to improve the accuracy of the delivery of the tasks we improve the efficacy of their activities and there in turn we have an impact on the quality of the delivery as well as the quality of the outcome our reporting and analysis produces results and provides our customers with a means of tracking whether or not we are adding value these are onsite live where possible and correctional activity can or action can be taken clearly we can also identify things on the truck for instance that people are operating at speeds that are outside of the instruction we get alerts we can correct that at the same time the results we track them and the outcomes we track and we see the delivery and we see the outcome so for example on the left hand side of your screen you see the number of skip grows double sprays and speed issues fixed per 1000 acres over a period of time and we can see that during this period of time the number of activities that we reported was high in the beginning and thereafter it dropped and the conclusion for that is that clearly by tracking this and taking correctional measures the actual effectiveness has improved now once again you translate that to costs and ultimately you bring down the costs of what these activities are the cost of the mistakes or the emissions or the recurring work etc etc and all of that is the tangible outcome that is the return on investment so what makes Fielding stand out from the crowd we do have a unique and sole focus on operations rather than agronomy operational efficiency is our key success factor rather than just simply GPS tracking there are many companies that provide as we use tracking as a means to deliver that insight into operational efficiency we are highly flexible and customizable in the solution that we provide because the insights that we provide each grower not only is different between growers they're different between the sites of each grower and they also alter and change as we grow with that client so the insights that we provide in year 1 will be more rudimentary the insights that we provide in year 2 etc etc we hand hold you we are a true SAS model so we are a software as a service model we're retention keeping you as a valued client as someone who is deriving benefit from us on an ongoing basis is our key success factor so our grower success manager that is the ultimate goal to maintain you as an interested party where we can show that we are delivering value on an ongoing basis the other differential there is that we're interested in the data so it is in our interest to maintain the hardware and the software so that you are agnostic to that and we need to make that as seamless as possible because if we can't get the data we can't provide that insight to you and therefore that's our responsibility at the end of the day we provide continuous benchmarking not only against yourself but also against industry gold standards ladies and gentlemen the best testimony to the results of our labor and our service are our loyal clients and at the end of the day we would love to be able to gain you as potential interested parties and what better than getting glowing testimonials from some clients that are using our product we'd love you to learn more and to engage with us please give us a call and we'd be delighted to talk to you further about our technology and I think that's about it now it's your time to mix and mingle around the room and enjoy the rest of the afternoon just a final bit of formality thank you for your help and being our emcee today it's been great